Haydn's Cello Concerto

The evening

Eurovision Young Musician finalist and Bernstein Award winner, cellist Anastasia Kobekina, joins Royal Northern Sinfonia and Artistic Partner Maria Włoszczowska.

Haydn’s ever-popular Cello Concerto, amazingly lost for decades on end and rediscovered in the 1960s, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, plus an unmissable opening piece by László Lajtha that puts the strings and harp in the spotlight.

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Running time: 2 hours, including a 20 minute interval.

Age: under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.

László Lajtha Les Soli Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto in C major Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4

Maria Włoszczowska director Anastasia Kobekina cello Royal Northern Sinfonia

Rebellious, entrepreneurial and hugely famous – maybe not how we’d describe composer Joseph Haydn today, but he really was all these things, with his Cello Concerto, which ripped up the musical rule-book of the day, demonstrating all of this. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 starts out mysterious, brooding and dark but by the end he, and we, are having a right laugh, in a bubbly joyous ending. László Lajtha’s music starts the night – music that’s immediately appealing and dead beautiful.